Well, there’s always .txt.
Even with this fancy formats, you can always cat them on a Unix box, or edit in vi.
LOL! My thoughts exactly
We just need a format in which the document does not have tons of arcane formatting codes. The simpler the better.
Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! ;o)
“Even with this fancy formats, you can always cat them on a Unix box, or edit in vi.”
Unless they saved everything in their micriofiche libary.
I have a collection of cutting edge (at one time) computer junk. There are punched cards, 8-inch floppies, disk platters, reel to reel tape, etc. Most everything stored there is saved in a format that has been lost to the ravages of time. Database info in proprietary formats, etc. So have their respective readers. Who keeps a working 8-inch floppy drive handy anyway?
“Well, there’s always .txt.”
Is that EBCDIC, UTF-8, ASCII, ISO 8859-1, Big-5 or...
And what will people do in 2050 if vi is deprecated in 2036?